I don't think people should be too surprised if they get rejected anywhere. For instance, someone on this forum has a 3.8 and a 177 and gets rejected from say, Harvard. Consider that Harvard probably got many applications with similar numbers and they can only take so many people - and perhaps someone else's soft factors were more impressive/better received. It's luck of the draw sometimes. I got waitlisted at a tier four school but accepted at a tier two. I'm sure there are people who have been rejected at some schools and accepted by a T14.

I had an almost constant string of acceptances from 10-30 ranked schools between Christmas and March. Then I was waitlisted at BC and Fordham, and I felt upset about it. The thing is after my ego got back to where it should have been all along I realized how lucky I was to get into so many great schools already. Not that this newfound appreciation of my luck makes me feel better about my Chicago, UVa, Michigan waitlists or My Harvard, Columbia, NYU rejections.